Latin America Rising

Issue
42Summer2007

Change is the rule in today's Latin America. The people demanded a new direction, and dictatorships have given way to democracies. After 20 years of stagnation, economies are taking off, and people are rising out of poverty. Here are stories of change from the bottom up—Latin America shows us the way. Summer 2007.

Don’t blame the Lady. Katrina killed no one in New Orleans. In fact, Katrina missed the city completely, going wide to the east. It wasn’t the hurricane that drowned, suffocated, de-hydrated and starved 1,500 people to death in August 2005. The killing was done by a deadly duo: a failed emergency evacuation plan combined with busted levees.
Here’s the story you haven’t been told.